Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Initial Ideas (Part 1)

For my initial ideas I looked at numerous different songs and ideas I could do for them. Some of the songs I looked at when trying to find a good song for my music video were “B is for Brutus” by The Hives and “Love Don’t Let Me Go” by David Guetta. After much thought and consideration I decided to use “Club Foot” by Kasabian from their album called Discover.

I knew straight away I wanted some kind of narrative sequence in a music video mixed with some performance. My first idea related to lyrics in the song that said “messing with my mind”, “chase, down an empty street” and “the blood ain’t on my face”. My first plan was to have some kind of bicycle video which used a camera mounted onto a bike and having events from that. I dismissed it because I didn’t think it had enough relation to the message portrayed in the song.

I chose to make a music video that related to the lyrics that came up most it the song like, “I tell you I want you, I’ll tell you I need you” and “just wanted you near me”. The rough idea of the music video will be a counter typical view of a girl watching a boy and will be exaggerated and amplified as much as possible by making it almost seem as if one is stalking the other.

In the way of mise en scene, I have thought about everything I wanted to do and what I would need to do that. The props I will need to create the scenes and shots I want to get are; binoculars, a tracking device, a bottled drink, a rope, fake poison, a chair and a small knife-like weapon.

The settings I need vary quite a bit so that people watching can easily tell the difference between the performances that will fragment the narrative part of the video. I will need to find a couple of roads in an urban town to film most of it. But will also need a hill/mountain that overlooks a valley for parts of the performance.

In the music video the artist will be portrayed as more of a victim and shown to be innocent and unknowing. The artist could also be seen as quite popular and idolized because he is being watched and followed.

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